Category: Biography
Jahanava Devi Jahanava Devi, II, later 16th cent, Vaiskara saint. Widow of Nityananda, a folltiv,er of Chaitanya (d. 1533), she was accepted as the undisputed leader of the Vaishnavas …
Jahanara Begum Jahanara Begum, 1613-83, Mughal princess. One of the most remarkable women in Mughal history, she was the eldest child of Emperor Shahjahan and Mumtaz Mahal, and the …
Rai Indar Kunwar Rai Indar Kunwar, 1715-19, Rajput princess. Daughter of Ajit Singh of Jodhpur, her marriage to Emperor Farrukhsiyar on 27 September 1715 was the most glittering event …
Hukman Kaur Hukman Kaur, 1783, Rani of Ritiala. Wife of Raja Sardul Singh (d. 1753) and grandmother of Raja Sahib Singh, it was through her endeavours that the six …
Rani Honnamma Rani Honnamma,17th cent., Kannada poet. A sudra woman, she probably belonged to Yelandur, in Karnataka, and was employed in the palace of the King Chikka Devaraja. She …
Homalata Homalata, early 17th cent, Vaishnava devotee. Daughter of the Vaishnava scholar, Srinivasa Acharya of Budhaipara, she was married to Ramakrishna Chatta of Budhaipara, on Hugh, A the death …
Hazra, Matanga Hazra, Matanga, 1870-1942, martyr. Born in a poor peasant family of Midnapore district in Bengal, she was given away in marriage at a very young age to …
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778-1850), French chemist and physicist. In 1802 he demonstrated that all gases expand by the same fraction of their volume for the same …
